Collections

Seeking a little help putting together your New Year's Eve festivities? Well, there are Windows Phone apps for that. Microsoft has put together a nifty collection that highlights several apps that should make preparing for your celebrations just a little easier.

My Movies is a movie collection management app for Windows Phone that allows you to catalog the movie titles you own or have rented. The app also lets you track movies you have loaned out, list titles you are looking to add to your collection and those titles you are looking to get rid of.

My Movies database has more than 750,000 DVD, Blu-ray and DVD titles that you can build your collection from and if you find a title missing, you can easily request it to be added.

If you need a Windows Phone app to help catalog your DVD collections, My Movies not a bad choice to consider.

Windows Phone Central Gaming Roundup: The Next Big Thing

One of the helpful features of the Windows Phone Store is the Collections. These are conglomerations of apps and games that fall in line with an underlying theme. Be it photography, shopping, sports or fitness these collections are a great place for one stop app/game shopping.

One gaming collection always seems to catch our eye is The Next Big Thing. It's a collection of games that the Windows Phone Store gate keepers see as having potential to hit it big. It is also the focus of this week's Windows Phone Central roundup.

We spun the wheel and picked four of the games currently listed in this collection to highlight. Three are very strong contenders for becoming the next big thing. The fourth... well the fourth needs a little fine tuning but is on the right track as well.

Microsoft seems to be constantly tweaking and fine tuning the Windows Phone Store experience. The latest upgrades will be seen with Windows Phone 8 store and covers a few design changes, a little under the hood tweaks and a hand full of new features. All designed to help consumers with app and game selection and to help developers get thier works seen.

If you are curious if an app or game has Live Tile support, the Details Page of the application will make note if the app has a Live Tile. This may not be a major improvement but how many out there have been curious is an app or game they are shopping for has Live Tile support and it's not noted in the description?